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Sometimes what goes around comes around!
Years ago the Library published a newsletter which was mailed quarterly to Villagers. Patrons have told us that they miss it - a newsletter is a nice vehicle to tell everyone about enhanced services and new purchases. So here is VOLUME 5: NUMBER 3, with a 5-year hiatus! And this time we will send out the newsletter courtesy of the World Wide Web.
Continue to check your Hastings email for announcements of Library programs. Parents and caregivers of pre-school children are encouraged to visit Hastingslibrary@gmail.com to register for "Let's Pretend" and "Out of the Book" with Nora Maher and Catrin Perih.
During the summer we de-accessioned, from the adult collection, books on cassette and VHS videos. With an infusion of money from the Friends of the Library we purchased many books on CD and lectures from The Teaching Company's Great Courses. Whether you want to brush up on your knowledge of Homer's poetry or better understand Mahler's music, listening to renowned professors teach in their respective fields "a way to extend an educational experience, usually restricted to the young and privileged, to a mass market of adult lifelong learners."
For those of you more technologically savvy, download an audiobook onto your own MP3 device, via "Overdrive" provided by the Westchester Library System atwww.westchesterlibraries.org.
Harvey Lerner, Hastings resident AND program director of our film series "Talking Pictures,"recently divulged HIS list of all-time great foreign films. Thanks to the Friends of the Library, who provided the funding, the Library now has a foreign film section in our DVD collection.
OK, so what would a librarian be, if he or she didn't share their favorite new materials in the collection? This past year I watched local filmmaker Peter Callahan's movie "Against the Current". Paul Thompson, the "hero", recruits two friends to accompany him as he swims 150 miles of the Hudson River. The three explore the question of "how we cope when what we lose is greater than what life has to offer". On a summer bus trip I read Every Man Dies Alone, a novel written over 50 years ago, but just recently translated, based on life in Berlin under the Nazis. It brilliantly explores how fear and courage often go hand-in-hand. I was so engrossed in the book, that at a rest stop I turned my copy of the book upside-down so that "the police" would not catch me
reading it - that's how well this book takes the reader to another time and place. And, finally, on my drive to and from work I am listening to "NPR: The First 40 Years", memorable clips from decades of news, culture, commentary, and conversation. (-Sue Feir)
The juvenile, young adult, and graphic novel collections of the Library have been completely updated and revamped. Classics have been highlighted, popular titles have been expanded, and all books have been labeled by genre and series.
Happy Reading!
The Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library
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Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
(914) 478-3307
Village of Hastings-on-Hudson
7 Maple Ave, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
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